Helping At Home While teaching social science in class six, the teacher asked ‘how many of you tend a helping hand at home’. Only a few hands went up. The teacher said ‘your parents help you in completing your homework and in studies’ isn’t it?...
My Mom Is The Best Cook Rahul asked ‘Hey! Amit, what have you brought for lunch’? ‘Chicken biryani and fruits’ replied Amit. What a coincidence, I have the same menu today. Let’s devour from each other’s and decide whose mother is the best cook. Rahul’s...
A Walk in The Jungle We were all very excited about the Jungle-hike organised by the school last month. Dressed in rugged jeans, full sleeves shirts and hiking shoes, we kicked off the journey from Bhimbhetka near Bhopal. We started our trek over the splendidly...
My Ride on A Tonga Tonga is a light two-wheeled horse-drawn traditional carriage which ran on the Indian streets frequently 25 years ago but is not a very common sight now. I was always fascinated by Tonga and had been longing to sit in it...
A Day with Lord Ganesha Once, on a beautiful breezy Sunday, we decided to take a trip to Nandi Hills, a famous picnic spot near Bangalore. The road required climbing up LAIC gradient and negotiating zigzag curves. On one of the curves, our car suddenly...
A Day with Lord Krishna My grandparents celebrate Janmashtami, Lord Krishna’s birthday, with great enthusiasm and devotion. This year, they invited a famous dance troupe from Mathura-Brindayan for the celebrations. As the troupe members got ready to perform for the evening festivities, they invited me...
Mona Lisa- My First Look At Her Leonardo da Vinci was a master and his most famous work, the Mona Lisa, also called ‘La Gioconda’, is ample proof. A visit to the ‘Louvre’ in Paris can fetch you a glance at this immensely famous work...
My Days in A Boarding School I spent a good portion of my childhood in a boarding school with a mélange of children from different states and countries and that made us truly cosmopolitan. We’d have activity-packed days right from morning games to classes and...
My Visit to The London Bridge Childhood begins with a mandatory recitation of the rhyme “London Bridge is falling down”. On a similar note, a trip to London begins with a visit to the London Bridge. The Bridge connects the city of London and Southwark...
Admiring The Eiffel Tower Think Paris and an image of the Eiffel Tower or the ‘Tour Eiffel’ crops up. Located at the ‘Champs de Mars’, the Eiffel Tower overlooks the river Seine. It was designed by Gustave Eiffel and was inaugurated in 1889 for the...
